After the commercial success of the Croc, Argonaut busts out Croc 2. Will they learn from their mistakes and make a better game? SOCIAL MEDIA: / nitrorad / nitroradofficial / nitrorad
Hey Nitro Rad, I actually 100% completed this game, and sorry to say but as soon as you get the all the eggs it just goes to the credits, no special or alternate ending exists. This is where I mentioned on the previous video that this game might have been unfinished/rushed. Actually the Gameboy color 100% ending for croc 2 was just this ending without the Baron Dante ending. (I own the Ps1 games plus thier gamboy color counterparts)
The Trophies from each world can be spent in any worlds trophy door, so you might have spent the 5 Cossack (ice) world trophies somewhere else. There is probably a level in a different world that you dont have a trophy for. Or your disc is rekt
Maybe instead of a puzzle, we can call it a tactical.... er, environmental.... Good lord no wonder there's no name for this kind of thing this is hard, dude. That being said, if you can come up with a catchy name for it, James, you could probably be able to make it into a widespread term, seeing as you have a sizable audience as is.
I was really confused watching this as I've played loads of this game and had no recollection of coloured gummis, then remembered they were just the different coloured jelly in the PAL version! Much better IMO.
Oh man seeing those lifesavers in the shop brings me back. I don't know why but the one on the left I remember so vividly from way back when I played this game when it launched.
Also apparently they're still LifeSavers (or Gummi Savers) in the PAL version. Possibly the Japanese version too. And Swap Meet Pete constantly screams "ALOLA KOALA! ALOLA KOALA!" at you.
@@ilikecurry23452 years late but nope, it's Jelly Jumps in the PAL version. Weirdly though on PC swap meet pete sells gummi savers in the store but the store models are the jelly jumps. Very bizarre
The weird thing is, I got so used to the tank controls in Croc 1, that I used the alternate control method in the PC version of Croc 2 which sets him back to tank controls, it threw me off too much to play it normally.
That Pikmin 2 product placement was top notch. Really made you want to go out and buy some collectibles or food. Croc's use of it makes me wonder how it would go in the modern age if more games did that. Like Mario Kart 8 using a Mercedes-Benz?
Just discovered your channel and I love it ! You talk about so many games that deserve more attention ! And so many memories ! Gotta watch your Fatal Frame videos next !
Instead of sprites with eyes and a crown, now the Gobbos look like cereal. To be specific, Golden Nuggets/Honey Smacks that've been left out in the sun for too long.
Croc 2! Me and my brother loved this game! Had the PC version. Let's see, I remember liking the music in the second and forth world. We liked the noise the gobbos made. There's a forth world level where you put baby gobbos into cribs and I remember finding the level unsettling. Also, there's this one (jungle?) level where the music sounds like an instrumental of one-hit wonder "Coco Jumbo" by Mr. President. I always thought that was cool.
Pridetoons aka Afro Lion I agree. Caddicarus just gave up at the Octopus Boss. He didn't really go in-depth with the game and just did his review so he could speak fast and shove in as many gags as possible.
Joshua Rosario yeah I agree with both of you. Caddicarus favor more in comedy then reviewing games. Nitro rad just go more in depth of games and he is being more serious. I just like Nitro rad better. Hes gags can get annoying.
My Life With Lucario he is just alright. His gags can be funny sometimes. But I wished he reviewed other games then anything that is licensed (Disney or rugrats) and tried some hidden gems like, medal of honor, Einhänder, Alundra. Or some obscure platformers. The ps1 do have a lot of them. But it's just my opinion.
My Life With Lucario I mean, your opinion is your opinion, but just because you played a game when you were younger doesn’t mean that it’s still as good as it once was.
+My Life With Lucario I definitely agree with your statement dude, I am a fan of Caddy myself as well but some of the games he reviews he could've covered a bit better like you mentioned his SpongeBob review & Croc 2 as well.
Oh, this game brings back memories. I never played the first one and I'm wanting to think I got this as a bonus with my PlayStation one Christmas. I never completed it because the second racing course kicked my butt, but I loved the music and the color palette was so upbeat. I'd never heard of anyone else playing this before. Thanks for bringing back the good memories, Nitro Rad!
Cros 2 is..... not a game I actually played, despite loving the first Croc. Only got to try it out once for a short time on a friend's PS1, so seeing it here explored in-depth is my introduction to most of the game. Too bad about the weird difficulty, would've broken gotten frustrated with it as a child. I wonder, if the Gobbos on the island are all wearing clothes but the original ones aren't, does that make them nudists?
I can agree to that last sentiment. Whenever I want to replay a PS1 or N64 game I always look at my copy of both Croc games and consider them for a moment but always end up playing something else. Croc was fairly decent for its time but it got lost in the crowd.
I played Croc 2 on PC as a child years before I ever played Croc 1 on the PS1. I remember being so much less sensitive about controls, graphics and even story back in the day. The only instance I can remember of being like "I can't deal with these controls" is from when I played Resident Evil 2, and even then to be fair it was probably just the urgency of not being eaten alive exacerbating it.
You didn't really miss much with the secret island. Yeah, you get some extra levels to recover the eggs from Lord Dante, but it doesn't have a new final boss, nor any cutscenes at the end when you get all the eggs, just a "Congrats! You completed the game 100%, is this the end of the story? Just wait and see!", so ending the saga with the cute cutscene between croc and both his biological and adoptive parents was a much better way than just a text screen. Also to add insult to injury, the 100% ending text scrolls just as fast as the regular credits.
My copy of Croc 2 was for the Gameboy Color. I actually won it as a home-player for Video & Arcade Top 10. Funny enough, I actually sent in my letter for the art wall, so when I received a package with a game in it I was pretty happy! I don't think there was a taped episode that aired with me as the home player though. My only hope is if I can ever find the series uploaded online, but chances of that are slim. :(
PS: I... can't believe you mentioned Spyro twice in this video. Is it possible we might see... a review sometime in the future? Far future? At some point? It _is_ the best moment for that, after all.
In the UK version, the Life Savers are just jellies. I was able to get to the Secret World. It's just the first 3 hub villages again but with Dantinis. There are 5 levels in each of the villages and each level contains one of the coloured gems which are needed to open the cage to one of the 3 eggs. The true ending sucks. It's just the credits again with a message congratulating you on 100% and also says "Is this the end for Croc? You'll have to wait and see!!"
Honestly, between the lack of a proper ending to the Secret World (resulting in the villain remaining at large even after 100% completion), the lack of an Inca Gobbo stage in the Secret World, and the fact that the Inca Gobbos only had two levels, this makes me wonder whether this was one of those situations where they had to rush it out before completing everything.
After watching a bunch of your videos in a row it got me nostalgic for some of my ps1 games. Specifically Breakout for some reason. I think you would really enjoy it because it mixes up the old gameplay with stages, different gameplay like running from a wolf, and boss battles.
I know you've finished your Super Mario Marathon, but I do want to hear your thoughts on Super Mario 63. It's a fanmade flash game from 2009 that basically takes the open-world/sandbox style of gameplay from Super Mario 64, Sunshine, and Odyssey and translates it in a 2D space. For an old Mario flash game it holds up really well and I had a lot of fun revisiting it (I also played it a lot when I was a kid so there was a lot of nostalgic moments for me). If you're ever interested, I recommend playing it on Newgrounds. The screen's very small, but I never had a problem simply zooming in. As far as I can tell, it doesn't affect performance/frame-rate.
Looks pretty great for a game this generation! They really did a good job with the art direction and even the polygons. I mean, look at the original Crash games: they're great, but the 3D graphics did not age as well as, say, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and that was a 16-bit game for a machine years older!
Please keep up the great videos man your video structure and overall quality is something unique and special. A suggestion for a future video I enjoyed would be pikimin. Thanks though for being such a great channel.
About the statues. Did you check you got them all in the first hub world? Those statues are transferable between hubs, you can use statues gained from one hub world to open the door in another.
18:20 i actually suffered something similar recently when i played Contra 4 were i was fighting a miniboss and for some reason instead of dying it became invincible which was unfair, especially in a game were you die in 1 hit.
Croc 2: Legend of the Devil Chicken Hospital in Time Just threw the titles of the past few games James has reviewed together and I got this. Why? Terminal boredom I'd say. Makes me wonder how a devil chicken hospital functions.
+Executer 66 Ok, so its like Ghost Hospital in the way that creatures are sick (in this case, devil chickens), and the whole purpose of it is to turn the devil chickens back into normal chickens, and there's a legend surrounding the devil chickens and how they got there in the hospital that the main character has to find out, mixed with time shenanigans that the main doctor has started, cause they're a time traveler. I guess to link it to the Croc franchise, um... you play as Croc from the Croc games! I used 8 minutes to create this idea. Enjoy. :33
The hang-glider vehicle segment with flying through rings... It kinda reminded me of classic Starfox under Argonaut Games anyways, so... Maybe it was a cute way to reference it, without actually directly referencing Nintendo, like how it was a full repurpose of a Yoshi 3D game originally for Croc 1? At least that is what I'm seeing myself.
Nitro Rad, you should team up with the Croc fan community out there to make Croc Fun Adventures Online where you can play either as Croc or as your own Croc character and have endless fun adventures with some fun and interesting surprises never before seen in the Croc franchise.
A puzzle in games is your character interacting with objects or enemies in the environment to progress in a way outside the norm. Zelda bosses are considered puzzle bosses because you have to solve how to beat them. They also typically change up how you use the tool to beat them from what I remember making it slightly different. I don't think calling it a puzzle is wrong.
I will say that, although the game doesn’t refill hearts, it will give you a heart if you collect 50 crystals. If you collect all 100 in a level, it will max out your hearts. You can also buy a heart from Swap Meet Pete if you’re desperate. But I’d have to agree, the fame doesn’t help you out with hearts as much as it should.
Another amazingly rad review, you never disappoint man. Also, Wallace Stinkleburg for Smash Ultimate? I mean, he's too great of a character to leave out.
So about that secret world... The game plops you into a straight mirror of World 1's hub, with each of the five level doors now hosting a challenge for one colored gem. Collect all five, use them to unlock the cage and rescue one of those stolen eggs, and you move on to the next world. Do it in every world and... that's it! The only addition is the credits claiming Croc will return, which he never really did, did he?
Critics were way too hard on this game back in the day. The level design is excellent, the graphics contain much more detail, and the bosses are very entertaining. While it may not be perfect, Croc 2 nails the formula of a 3D platformer.
5:33 Or just, I don't know. Don't jump too early. 8:15 But yea, that is bull, you don't even get half for restarting 8:32 What would a Nitrorad vid be without a mention of Mario 64, Banjo-Koozie or Sonic Adventure? 9:10 Shoulda been able to climb that. 11:29 It's very weird, yes. But it's nice for it's theme. 13:19 That's a great idea of a Boss to me. Doing more than one thing. 13:42 I'll level with you there. Vehicle sections typically aren't that good in platformers. especially when it's not used that much. good thing it was small. 15:42 Yea, Why does Pete look so happy? 16:09 Seems like all the outside media got a slice of games. Fox, Universal. 18:32 I dislike when moments like those happen. 19:54 What a nice reunion. What's with all the minor Platformers having cliffhangers that don't conclude? 20:13 Mate, It's not showing that much text. I agree with you. I rarely read those reviews anyway. Especially with Blinx.
Hey Nitro, I found your channel about a month ago and I've enjoyed all of your reviews! Croc is one of my childhood games so it was really nice to see it reviewed. A quick request, for October this year, could you give the Fatal Frame series a look? I'm playing the first one and it's pretty spooky.
I guess you could say it's...."the DarkSouls of platform games" ;D Also, kartrace segments... I know there are probably worse ones, but let's forget about TY 3's "Kartrace! Oh and collect all the small thunder egg pieces along the way btw. Oh and you still gotta be first place though."
I kept having to rewind the part where you said, "the right stick is functionless. It is functional though..." I couldn't figure out which one of us was going insane. Its you by the way.
Imagine if Croc was actually an Echo Fighter for Yoshi in Smash Ultimate. It would kinda make sense since his original game was supposed to be for Yoshi but like u said Nintendo turned Argonaut down ,so they kept the idea and made Croc pretty much. He's literally kinda a Yoshi clone lol. He's definitely kinda in Nintendos history I guess and he did have 2 game boy color ports. His moveset could be similar to Yoshi's like the Up B could be him throwing crystals or diamonds or him using the "Triple Jump or Glider, his Down B can be his ground pound, his Side B could be him riding in his car (kinda like wario riding the bike), his B move could be his tail whip or something, and all the other A moves could be similar to Yoshi's or Sakurai could just pull a Captain Falcon and make stuff up. His final smash could be the bird from the first game picks him up and he can fly around the stage like Yoshi and through diamonds or Gabbos, or maybe the Baron shows up and beats everyone? It would definitely be out of left field and unexpected and Sakurai has done stuff like that before. It definitely be interesting to see. Just some food for thought 😏.
"A goofy way to bring the main Gillian back". They are doing *Satanic* rituals nitro. * S A T A N I C R I T U A L S*
In a goofy way.
I'm just imagining what Gillian's Island would be.
Don't you mean. . .
*S A T A N I C R I T U A L S*
Yeah?
Cj_sucks_at_life
And satanic rituals aren't goofy?
*G I L L I A N*
Played this game so much as a kid, thanks for covering it!
I was dying at the part with Wallace Stinkleberg, so dang funny
bandzicoot "I really shouldn't have done that"
Lol same
Reminds me of Brady eating an apple in Tonic Trouble
Hey Nitro Rad, I actually 100% completed this game, and sorry to say but as soon as you get the all the eggs it just goes to the credits, no special or alternate ending exists. This is where I mentioned on the previous video that this game might have been unfinished/rushed. Actually the Gameboy color 100% ending for croc 2 was just this ending without the Baron Dante ending.
(I own the Ps1 games plus thier gamboy color counterparts)
The Trophies from each world can be spent in any worlds trophy door, so you might have spent the 5 Cossack (ice) world trophies somewhere else. There is probably a level in a different world that you dont have a trophy for. Or your disc is rekt
Interresting seeing a croc wr holder commenting :)
Maybe instead of a puzzle, we can call it a tactical.... er, environmental....
Good lord no wonder there's no name for this kind of thing this is hard, dude.
That being said, if you can come up with a catchy name for it, James, you could probably be able to make it into a widespread term, seeing as you have a sizable audience as is.
What about a Flummox
...Context sensitive battle?
I'd say that Flummox would imply a very hard puzzle. It's not half bad, but it kind of misses the point imho.
What about strategic environment usage
I would just call it environmental battles
#FreeWallaceStinkleberg
MegaMann14 just another brother wrongfully imprisoned by the man.
FREE HIM!
MegaMann14 another unfair imprisonment!
*Life Goes On by Tupac plays softly in the background*
Rip in ravioli always stay moldy.
I was really confused watching this as I've played loads of this game and had no recollection of coloured gummis, then remembered they were just the different coloured jelly in the PAL version! Much better IMO.
Oh man seeing those lifesavers in the shop brings me back. I don't know why but the one on the left I remember so vividly from way back when I played this game when it launched.
Damn shame Croc 3 never got made, it would've been interesting to see Croc on the then modern systems.
This review is so much better then Caddy’s where he just stopped at the octopus boss. This review actually goes really in depth
Also apparently they're still LifeSavers (or Gummi Savers) in the PAL version. Possibly the Japanese version too.
And Swap Meet Pete constantly screams "ALOLA KOALA! ALOLA KOALA!" at you.
@@ilikecurry23452 years late but nope, it's Jelly Jumps in the PAL version.
Weirdly though on PC swap meet pete sells gummi savers in the store but the store models are the jelly jumps. Very bizarre
The weird thing is, I got so used to the tank controls in Croc 1, that I used the alternate control method in the PC version of Croc 2 which sets him back to tank controls, it threw me off too much to play it normally.
DUDE I love you for using the Hotel Dusk music
That Pikmin 2 product placement was top notch. Really made you want to go out and buy some collectibles or food. Croc's use of it makes me wonder how it would go in the modern age if more games did that.
Like Mario Kart 8 using a Mercedes-Benz?
Just discovered your channel and I love it ! You talk about so many games that deserve more attention ! And so many memories ! Gotta watch your Fatal Frame videos next !
Instead of sprites with eyes and a crown, now the Gobbos look like cereal. To be specific, Golden Nuggets/Honey Smacks that've been left out in the sun for too long.
OMG I HAVEN'T HEARD THE NAME CROC IN YEARS!!! MY CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA JUST HIT ME HARD! :D
I'm a simple man. I see a new NitroRad video, I watch it, I love it
Take that Wallace Stinkleburg! Our Banks deserve to be Safe!
Great video !
I would also add that i find the musics of this game suprisingly amazing. All of them are still in my head nowdays and i love them !
Croc 2! Me and my brother loved this game! Had the PC version. Let's see, I remember liking the music in the second and forth world. We liked the noise the gobbos made. There's a forth world level where you put baby gobbos into cribs and I remember finding the level unsettling. Also, there's this one (jungle?) level where the music sounds like an instrumental of one-hit wonder "Coco Jumbo" by Mr. President. I always thought that was cool.
I remember buying this game the day my parents went to Circuit City to get our first computer and I absolutely loved it
Your review is way better than Caddicarus's review!
Pridetoons aka Afro Lion I agree. Caddicarus just gave up at the Octopus Boss. He didn't really go in-depth with the game and just did his review so he could speak fast and shove in as many gags as possible.
Joshua Rosario yeah I agree with both of you. Caddicarus favor more in comedy then reviewing games. Nitro rad just go more in depth of games and he is being more serious. I just like Nitro rad better. Hes gags can get annoying.
My Life With Lucario he is just alright. His gags can be funny sometimes. But I wished he reviewed other games then anything that is licensed (Disney or rugrats) and tried some hidden gems like, medal of honor, Einhänder, Alundra. Or some obscure platformers. The ps1 do have a lot of them. But it's just my opinion.
My Life With Lucario I mean, your opinion is your opinion, but just because you played a game when you were younger doesn’t mean that it’s still as good as it once was.
+My Life With Lucario I definitely agree with your statement dude, I am a fan of Caddy myself as well but some of the games he reviews he could've covered a bit better like you mentioned his SpongeBob review & Croc 2 as well.
Your videos help me sleep at night
I think I played this in the Eagle’s Nest at Giant Eagle when I was kid. I never got passed the first level lol. Glad to see your channel is growing!!
Love this game. I played it on PC when I was 5 and I almost forgot about it. Your review brought back all the memories! Thanks!
Croc 2: The Squeakquel
Electric Boogaloo!
squeakquel is objectively funnier than electric boogaloo and thats just the facts
the 4 one was not bad
Croc 2: The Crocquel
Leave.
Oh, this game brings back memories. I never played the first one and I'm wanting to think I got this as a bonus with my PlayStation one Christmas. I never completed it because the second racing course kicked my butt, but I loved the music and the color palette was so upbeat. I'd never heard of anyone else playing this before. Thanks for bringing back the good memories, Nitro Rad!
I remember seeing this in a Blockbuster as a little kid, having played the first Croc, and wanted it. Never got it. Now I get to see what it was like.
Cros 2 is..... not a game I actually played, despite loving the first Croc. Only got to try it out once for a short time on a friend's PS1, so seeing it here explored in-depth is my introduction to most of the game. Too bad about the weird difficulty, would've broken gotten frustrated with it as a child.
I wonder, if the Gobbos on the island are all wearing clothes but the original ones aren't, does that make them nudists?
Haha love this comment
this was my first video game ever... I couldn't even get past the beach area when I was that young and stupid lmfao
I had a busy day running my daughter to the library and swim class and grocery shopping. Come home to a new Nitro Rad vid. Good way to unwind
I can agree to that last sentiment. Whenever I want to replay a PS1 or N64 game I always look at my copy of both Croc games and consider them for a moment but always end up playing something else. Croc was fairly decent for its time but it got lost in the crowd.
This game is so nostalgic! Took me forever to beat, when I was a kid. I miss the mine cart level the most.
I played Croc 2 on PC as a child years before I ever played Croc 1 on the PS1. I remember being so much less sensitive about controls, graphics and even story back in the day. The only instance I can remember of being like "I can't deal with these controls" is from when I played Resident Evil 2, and even then to be fair it was probably just the urgency of not being eaten alive exacerbating it.
That epic jewel case insert flip was magical. Just magical
You didn't really miss much with the secret island. Yeah, you get some extra levels to recover the eggs from Lord Dante, but it doesn't have a new final boss, nor any cutscenes at the end when you get all the eggs, just a "Congrats! You completed the game 100%, is this the end of the story? Just wait and see!", so ending the saga with the cute cutscene between croc and both his biological and adoptive parents was a much better way than just a text screen.
Also to add insult to injury, the 100% ending text scrolls just as fast as the regular credits.
That camera quality hit me like a truck
Oh man when I was little we had a demo of this on our PC, you brought back old memories
He's a young K.Rool. His youth is where his fascination for sparkly gems came from.
I've lost too many hours on Croc 2 and Jersey Devil as a kid, it's a cool throwback.
I like that Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Cars 3 made the exact same "life's a beach" pun.
My copy of Croc 2 was for the Gameboy Color. I actually won it as a home-player for Video & Arcade Top 10. Funny enough, I actually sent in my letter for the art wall, so when I received a package with a game in it I was pretty happy! I don't think there was a taped episode that aired with me as the home player though. My only hope is if I can ever find the series uploaded online, but chances of that are slim. :(
PS: I... can't believe you mentioned Spyro twice in this video. Is it possible we might see... a review sometime in the future? Far future? At some point? It _is_ the best moment for that, after all.
In the UK version, the Life Savers are just jellies.
I was able to get to the Secret World. It's just the first 3 hub villages again but with Dantinis. There are 5 levels in each of the villages and each level contains one of the coloured gems which are needed to open the cage to one of the 3 eggs.
The true ending sucks. It's just the credits again with a message congratulating you on 100% and also says "Is this the end for Croc? You'll have to wait and see!!"
Honestly, between the lack of a proper ending to the Secret World (resulting in the villain remaining at large even after 100% completion), the lack of an Inca Gobbo stage in the Secret World, and the fact that the Inca Gobbos only had two levels, this makes me wonder whether this was one of those situations where they had to rush it out before completing everything.
After watching a bunch of your videos in a row it got me nostalgic for some of my ps1 games. Specifically Breakout for some reason. I think you would really enjoy it because it mixes up the old gameplay with stages, different gameplay like running from a wolf, and boss battles.
All your videos become the highlight of my day.
Congrats on 100K!
The shading on that Croc CGI model has weird lighting to it, he looks like he’s crying a cartoon teardrop on a small mobile thumbnail.
I know you've finished your Super Mario Marathon, but I do want to hear your thoughts on Super Mario 63. It's a fanmade flash game from 2009 that basically takes the open-world/sandbox style of gameplay from Super Mario 64, Sunshine, and Odyssey and translates it in a 2D space. For an old Mario flash game it holds up really well and I had a lot of fun revisiting it (I also played it a lot when I was a kid so there was a lot of nostalgic moments for me).
If you're ever interested, I recommend playing it on Newgrounds. The screen's very small, but I never had a problem simply zooming in. As far as I can tell, it doesn't affect performance/frame-rate.
How can it take the gameplay style from Odyssey (a game that was released in 2017) when it was made in 2009?
Homer: 7:27 he said RARE I'm going to play Goldeneye! *runs off*
Marge: I never agreed to that deeeeal!
I still have one of these games for my game boy
I like to use the term ‘Environmental Boss Fights’ to describe those types of boss fights.
I am once again watching this video and remembering how fucking HARD this game was
I appreciate your background music
''A goofy way to bring him back'' *Excuse me, that shit was my nightmares when I was a kid*
Looks pretty great for a game this generation! They really did a good job with the art direction and even the polygons. I mean, look at the original Crash games: they're great, but the 3D graphics did not age as well as, say, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and that was a 16-bit game for a machine years older!
to be fair, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 was a game that came near the end of the 16-bit era. Crash 1 came out only 1 year after the Playstation.
Iverson64 Also true, but Crash 3 and Spyro didn't really improve that much aesthetically from Crash 1 and those games came out years later.
Crash 3 came out two years later, and it looks infinitely better than Crash 1. Even Crash 2 looks a lot better.
That partial health-fill up is also the biggest (and maybe the only) flaw in Rayman 1.
17:04
Why didn’t you say “You just product place them down” or something-
Please keep up the great videos man your video structure and overall quality is something unique and special. A suggestion for a future video I enjoyed would be pikimin. Thanks though for being such a great channel.
I don't know why, but your videos make me feel good
About the statues. Did you check you got them all in the first hub world? Those statues are transferable between hubs, you can use statues gained from one hub world to open the door in another.
I don't think I ever got too far in this game. Can't remember anything other than the boat race and the squid boss
Ah, so Rad doesn't know about NOLF. But then, given his console focus, that's understandable. FOX's game publishing was a bit of a flash in the pan.
They say Wallace Stinkleberg is still planning his next crime in his cell to this day...
They also say that this review is pretty dang good.
Croc 2 felt way too rushed. It needed an extra year or so in development. The further you get, the jankier it gets.
By the way, that Croc 3 picture is a hoax.
@Adam_Roman true i wish argonaut was still around and alive right now
18:20 i actually suffered something similar recently when i played Contra 4 were i was fighting a miniboss and for some reason instead of dying it became invincible which was unfair, especially in a game were you die in 1 hit.
I just got reminded on how weird it was that the ground pound in pmttyd was called the spin jump even though that was something completely different.
The video was a product for lifesavers all along OF COURSE!
Croc 2: Legend of the Devil Chicken Hospital in Time
Just threw the titles of the past few games James has reviewed together and I got this. Why? Terminal boredom I'd say. Makes me wonder how a devil chicken hospital functions.
+Executer 66
Ok, so its like Ghost Hospital in the way that creatures are sick (in this case, devil chickens), and the whole purpose of it is to turn the devil chickens back into normal chickens, and there's a legend surrounding the devil chickens and how they got there in the hospital that the main character has to find out, mixed with time shenanigans that the main doctor has started, cause they're a time traveler. I guess to link it to the Croc franchise, um... you play as Croc from the Croc games! I used 8 minutes to create this idea. Enjoy. :33
Devil Chicken Hospital...
*ADULT SWIM'S NEXT SHOW TITLE* ?
@Most Deadest Pool of em All. dang youre right
The hang-glider vehicle segment with flying through rings... It kinda reminded me of classic Starfox under Argonaut Games anyways, so... Maybe it was a cute way to reference it, without actually directly referencing Nintendo, like how it was a full repurpose of a Yoshi 3D game originally for Croc 1? At least that is what I'm seeing myself.
It's kind of refreshing to see a totally different review of it compared to Caddy.
Nitro Rad, you should team up with the Croc fan community out there to make Croc Fun Adventures Online where you can play either as Croc or as your own Croc character and have endless fun adventures with some fun and interesting surprises never before seen in the Croc franchise.
I owned the first game as a kid but only rented this sequel for a weekend. And yet my nostalgia for this game I barely played is too real
A puzzle in games is your character interacting with objects or enemies in the environment to progress in a way outside the norm. Zelda bosses are considered puzzle bosses because you have to solve how to beat them. They also typically change up how you use the tool to beat them from what I remember making it slightly different.
I don't think calling it a puzzle is wrong.
I will say that, although the game doesn’t refill hearts, it will give you a heart if you collect 50 crystals. If you collect all 100 in a level, it will max out your hearts. You can also buy a heart from Swap Meet Pete if you’re desperate. But I’d have to agree, the fame doesn’t help you out with hearts as much as it should.
Back in the days of the vhs. Advertisments of croc were present in power rangers home videos.
Stinks how both the Croc and Banjo games were going to at least have a trilogy of mainline games and it didn't pan out for either.
Another amazingly rad review, you never disappoint man. Also, Wallace Stinkleburg for Smash Ultimate? I mean, he's too great of a character to leave out.
So about that secret world... The game plops you into a straight mirror of World 1's hub, with each of the five level doors now hosting a challenge for one colored gem. Collect all five, use them to unlock the cage and rescue one of those stolen eggs, and you move on to the next world. Do it in every world and... that's it! The only addition is the credits claiming Croc will return, which he never really did, did he?
13:05 Anyone else slow down the video and watch that plant's tongue five times? There's something about wiggly, undulating tongues like that I like.
Critics were way too hard on this game back in the day. The level design is excellent, the graphics contain much more detail, and the bosses are very entertaining. While it may not be perfect, Croc 2 nails the formula of a 3D platformer.
I always thought those looked like Lifesavers when I was kid. Years later I now know that they really were Lifesavers 😂
5:33 Or just, I don't know. Don't jump too early.
8:15 But yea, that is bull, you don't even get half for restarting
8:32 What would a Nitrorad vid be without a mention of Mario 64, Banjo-Koozie or Sonic Adventure?
9:10 Shoulda been able to climb that.
11:29 It's very weird, yes. But it's nice for it's theme.
13:19 That's a great idea of a Boss to me. Doing more than one thing.
13:42 I'll level with you there. Vehicle sections typically aren't that good in platformers. especially when it's not used that much. good thing it was small.
15:42 Yea, Why does Pete look so happy?
16:09 Seems like all the outside media got a slice of games. Fox, Universal.
18:32 I dislike when moments like those happen.
19:54 What a nice reunion. What's with all the minor Platformers having cliffhangers that don't conclude?
20:13 Mate, It's not showing that much text.
I agree with you. I rarely read those reviews anyway. Especially with Blinx.
I played this game to death; I had no idea about that rolling jump thing.
With the announcement of the first being remastered, I hope Argonaut fixes the faults of that and Croc 2.
Getting sweats for christmas, i dont know how to feel about that.
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I love this game. It was one of my first video games i ever played. Great video.
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Hey Nitro, I found your channel about a month ago and I've enjoyed all of your reviews! Croc is one of my childhood games so it was really nice to see it reviewed.
A quick request, for October this year, could you give the Fatal Frame series a look? I'm playing the first one and it's pretty spooky.
I guess you could say it's...."the DarkSouls of platform games" ;D
Also, kartrace segments...
I know there are probably worse ones, but let's forget about TY 3's "Kartrace! Oh and collect all the small thunder egg pieces along the way btw. Oh and you still gotta be first place though."
I kept having to rewind the part where you said, "the right stick is functionless. It is functional though..." I couldn't figure out which one of us was going insane. Its you by the way.
"The right stick is completely functionless in this game. It doesn't do anything. It is functional though." Hmmm... Yeah, its definitely you.
About the heart thing, I used to fight the first boss from the snow world to recover my life quickly.
I just noticed that the voice at the beginning doesn't say "Nitro Fred" anymore, I'm going to miss that...
I love that Brady bit
That might not be the disc being scratched, Nitro- that might be disc rot! :o
Imagine if Croc was actually an Echo Fighter for Yoshi in Smash Ultimate. It would kinda make sense since his original game was supposed to be for Yoshi but like u said Nintendo turned Argonaut down ,so they kept the idea and made Croc pretty much. He's literally kinda a Yoshi clone lol. He's definitely kinda in Nintendos history I guess and he did have 2 game boy color ports.
His moveset could be similar to Yoshi's like the Up B could be him throwing crystals or diamonds or him using the "Triple Jump or Glider, his Down B can be his ground pound, his Side B could be him riding in his car (kinda like wario riding the bike), his B move could be his tail whip or something, and all the other A moves could be similar to Yoshi's or Sakurai could just pull a Captain Falcon and make stuff up. His final smash could be the bird from the first game picks him up and he can fly around the stage like Yoshi and through diamonds or Gabbos, or maybe the Baron shows up and beats everyone? It would definitely be out of left field and unexpected and Sakurai has done stuff like that before. It definitely be interesting to see. Just some food for thought 😏.
So... its the dark souls of platformers?
you have a kill la kill poster in the back ground you excited for that kill la kill game next year